Mitchell blew everyone’s minds when David Crosby discovered her in a small club in South Florida. Her 1968 debut, Song to a Seagull, contains key songs from that initial flashpoint, like "Michael from Mountains" and "The Dawntreader."Mitchell’s artistic vision truly coalesced on her second...
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sometimes at something carlile said or did, occasionally at her own lyrics, but mostly, seemingly, just out of the sense that maybe it’s as absurdly funny as it is wonderful to be alive and being celebrated after all that has transpired. mitchell got a big chortle out of chan...
The lyrics to Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now,” written in 1967, speak of a then-versus-now perspective on love and life, of recalling “illusions” rat... 来自 cms.axiom4.com 喜欢 0 阅读量: 14 作者: JW White 收藏 引用 批量引用 报错 分享 全部来源...
There's a windswept quality to Joni Mitchell's Hejira that goes beyond the landscapes depicted in its songs. This 1976 album is a travel diary set to an expansive and evocative jazz-rock score. Coolly luminous, the music frames lyrics at once intimately conversational and meticulously poetic. ...
Her work helped birth a new idiom that was personal and poetic, creating a new space for songs that made artistic statements, unbound by cliché and tradition. Such was the strength of her music that Mitchell's lyrics didn't have to make sense. But they did, particularly to women. ...
aside from the fact that it’s, like, one of the most moving songs ever written. Just as much as with the complementary vocal parts, Carlile also serves an invaluable role in these Joni Jams in the part she was really born to play: Mitchell’s hype man. She generally refrains from...
The analyses of songs from Joni Mitchell's albums Clouds (Reprise Records 6341, 1967) and Blue (Reprise Records 2038, 1971) testify to this as Whiteley situates her readings of the music and lyrics within a feminist debate. She ... L Burns - 《Popular Music》 被引量: 0发表: 2001年 ...
But just as she recasts the jaunty carol in a dirge-like minor key, her lyrics inscribe a distance from Yuletide cheer: “They’re putting up reindeer/And singing songs of joy and peace,” she observes. In the end, though, Mitchell owns up to her transgression with heartbreaking clarity...
aside from the fact that it’s, like, one of the most moving songs ever written. Just as much as with the complementary vocal parts, Carlile also serves an invaluable role in these Joni Jams in the part she was really born to play: Mitchell’s hype man. She generally refrain...